edit: This was originally about Trick Boots, until I discovered after getting the 5x Chemistry that 6x MechEng is also required. Result is no drop so whoever decided on the requirements for this tradeskill was on a really really bad mood. Now a thread about twinking on Slippers of Screaming for a 150 MA.

I'm trying to get my final 60-80ish Chemistry on my 150 MA and I've exhausted all other avenues I believe. Need 1100 total for my goal and I'm that little bit short.

Wondering if anyone has some arith/officer/scout pieces maximum ql150, even down to ql75ish if it's a number of pieces. Will be an quick equip then give back, no need for me to borrow the armor for any periods of time.

Note that the Master g staff requires a fair chunk of 2HB so you'd make some 2HB implants and stuff then stick that on first... but a lot of this is totally unnecessary.. like, on my 109 atrox keeper I've got about 450 agi, it's not maxed, and you should be sitting at close to 600 agi on opifex at 150 without even doing a damn thing.

The setup posted gives 368 agi, so just pick and choose how you want to do it.

In many slots there's items that give more agi, and many that give less. (i.e. miy's melee/ranged pants give more than MA penultimate pants),

150 MA's can use a swap, but I can already tell you that you're using the wrong setup for a swapping MA.

If you want to use a bow swap, you're better off with CC boots/gloves/chest/hat/arms and only Ofab MA pants.

You can get away with sureshot glasses, but the IP is tight.

Simply - you can't get enough AS skill to make a bow swap a valuable addition to your toolset without gimping other critical skills.

if you're interested in PVP you really should consider the drawbacks to a mixed setup (i.e. swapping).

For one, it's IP intensive, and for two, you end up being sort of mediocre in two areas, instead of exceedingly good in one area.

Put it this way, 150 MA's who want to PVP, generally they don't use a bow swap because it gives them a lot more IP to sink into parry (deflect), for the purpose of using a high QL flower of life. To make a kill in PVP, sure, you might do OK with a bow swap, but if your crit proc fires, and you dump flower of life on your target, he's going to be dead in 3 seconds, period. The rest of the time you can spend focusing on healing.

Mind you, maybe things are different with 18.7 and MA's getting much more rapid healing with team/single heals being concurrently available, but EVERY PVPing MA I know at 220 are either running with a non-swap setup (X1-R4 + Tonfa) or going pure ranged + full time zazen (that's what I use) and completely bypassing the "MA's are PVM DD Gold" type thing.

TL;DR I would highly recommend that you simply avoid IPing bow/AS for now. if you're keen to PVP, just go with melee style which is the bread and butter for TL5 MA's, and work on getting just earth shattering crits and good AR and good evades at the same time.

Notably, one method of doing this that i''ve seen (but don't really recommend) is going with QL 230-240 implants in RH/LH (feet gotta stay symb for the defence, agi and phys init). this gets you a lot more MA skill but lowers your nanoskills a bit. You can overcome that with some nanoskill swaps for casting UVC/FFoK, and, as opi you'd probably want to max out your CC (CM simply won't be effective for PVP) - I think QL 244 is good for an opi MA, since you can always go with a QL 240-248 left arm strength/AAD/phys imp to get your strength up. (basically, the only thing holding you back is strength - agi should be easymode), and for strength, as long as you're implanted in LA, RA is a awakened symb - not ideal but you need all the stats, and use growing infantry chest, then you can flesh out other slots with a few items that really add the final touches to keep it out of OE:

That would pretty much set you up for seriously fine tuned melee PVP combat and would also give you some insane PVM damage. of course, that's all slots CC except pants - if 244CC seems like a gong show, 223- 225 is completely sufficient.

For absolute certain you'll want to do the progression quest in ado and do the penumbra key so you can warp to pen to get your predator buff - for a prof like MA who lives and dies on being a serious evader, I can't overemphasize this enough, lack of 75AAD/75AAO when your opponents are running with it will be a debilitating handicap. So I'd consider getting started on that sooner than later.

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